Emjo: February 2010 Archives
watercolor on paper, 6x14", 2010
chalk pastel, polymer, iridescent pigment, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 11x14", 2010
oil on canvas, 2010
In general, nowhere does a longing for a transformation of the existing state of things arise more strongly than when one sees the surface looking so drearily flat and even, and yet knows what a commotion and ferment is taking place in the depths of mankind.
But let us leave the revolution and come back to our wet-nurse....
Good-bye, dearest heart, my beloved, my entire life. For the present I am in my little Germany, with everything around me, including my little one and my mother, and yet my heart is sad because you are absent; it yearns for you, and it hopes for you and your black messengers.
Jenny Von Westphalen
(June 12, 1844)
charcoal on paper, 12x18"
